==It depends on the country, drug availability and choice of patient given their situation. I’ve read a few studies results where the drug or drugs were given for a minimum of a day or two antenatally and intrapartum. It works.
You missed the whole point of my reply. Bottom line, AZT is extremely toxic and harms both mother and baby. The side effects are known, and they aren’t pretty. Even if you assume that HIV is the cause of AIDS, it only infects 1 in 500 T-cells. That means they have to kill 500 healthy cells just to get one infected cell. Is it any wonder there are so many nasty side effects? And if HIV is not the cause of AIDS, these treatments are downright criminal!
Au contraire! I'm a family practice doc with a special interest in adverse drug reactions because of my personal experience, except it wasn't with AZT, a phony nucleic acid intended to interfere with the normal functions of the RNA of the virus and what should be the expected blowback on host DNA and RNA.
AZT isn't the only drug against HIV/AIDS. There are at least 20 of them having 6 different ways of thwarting the virus. For me, the proof is in the pudding, i.e. increased longevity and decreased mortality of those infected with HIV which causes AIDS. Please read the links in comment# 90.
Chimp Virus Is Linked to H.I.V.
Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1
Basics of the virology of HIV-1 and its replication.
FWIW